Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Barack Obama: black belt in kung faux

Ed Driscoll digs up a remarkable comment from Barack Obama, uttered back in 2007, a portion of which runs as follows:
“I’m always best as a counterpuncher. You know, if somebody comes at me, I will knock them out.”
Bold talk, indeed, from a willowy stick-figure of a man who probably couldn’t go one round - in a boxing ring or in a debate - with Sarah Palin (or Bristol Palin, for that matter). The tendency of Obama, whose hands have done nothing more arduous than holding a golf club, to indulge himself in the pleasures of metaphorical violence bespeaks a deeply insecure personality; one which, cognizant, at some level, of the yawning gap between public success and private worthiness, prompts the man to strike absurd, out-of-character, tough-guy poses. It’s like Don Knotts doing a singularly bad James Cagney impersonation.

The little president that could. Except, of course, he can’t. So all that’s left is pretense. He’s the Canvasback Kid.

I firmly believe the voters will consign this awful president to political oblivion next year. How long it will take for our nightmares and flashbacks to end is anybody’s guess.

7 comments:

cac said...

I believe you are absolutely right Paco about Obama's electoral chances. Indeed, I think the real question is: worst post war president, Obama or Carter? What's your view as a keen observer of the scene?

Paco said...
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Paco said...

Obama is worse, and certainly more dangerous, because he is a committed leftist ideologue. Carter, although fairly consistently liberal, was more of an opportunist. Carter, at least, did not develop within the kind of radical cocoon that encased Obama. Obama strikes me as being ominously alienated from American culture and traditions, not to mention ignorant of history, which accounts for his view that our society can easily be remade into something more to his liking. He is Exhibit A for the late Michael Oakeshott's observation that the conjunction of dreaming and ruling breeds tyranny; so far, mostly a congeries of proliferating petty tyrannies. That is the only way the left can win in America. If our liberty dies, it will not be the result of a homicide, or even from a heart attack, but after a "long illness."

Paco said...

And in case anybody's interested, I removed my original comment because, in typing it out fast, I misused a word.

bruce said...

Good point about Don Knotts doing James Cagney (if Don Knotts will forgive being roped in to this).

I can't think of any other President who did 'tough guy' talk in public like that. Not even Bill Clinton.

That community organiser stuff really drags down public discourse into street talk.

RebeccaH said...

Colin Ferguson, of SyFy's Eureka, uttered a new name for the president last Monday night: Fauxbama. Of course, he was speaking of a presidential double, but I think it applies to the original very well.

Anonymous said...

How about "Knottybama"? While we laugh, he must be regarded as dangerous. We've seen the loss of liberty at an astounding rate under this man.

The Left has been working for decades to achieve their agenda of a Utopia. They have gained generations of supporters world-wide with clever repetition of mantras. David Horowitz wrote a fine pamphlet/book about Obama entitled "Barack Obama's Rules For Revolution". It's affordable, and something everyone should read. You'll want to pass it out. It is available through David Horowitz's Freedom Center. Chilling. Get your underliner.

Deborah Leigh